Defined as the practice of gaining awareness and acting upon the oppression of marginalized groups, allyship can account for the power interpreters hold in systems of oppression and can contribute…
Advocacy
Workshop report: Improving working conditions for interpreters, a collaborative session
By: Carolina Cannard, Agustina Marianacci and Alejandra González Campanella
Published: 2023-09-16
On 16 September 2023, an interactive workshop was held during the New Zealand Society of Translators and Interpreters (NZSTI) Conference in Ōtautahi Christchurch to address fair pay and working conditions…
Advocacy
Arts and Culture
Availability and acceptability of interpreting services for refugees as a question of trauma- informed care
By: Alejandra González Campanella
Published: 2023-03-01
Refugee-background communities have been a significant part of Aotearoa New Zealand’s multicultural population for decades. Despite the documented relevance of communication for newly arrived refugees, local reports over the years…
Advocacy
Horizontal methodologies in community interpreting studies: Conducting research with Latin American service users in Aotearoa New Zealand
By: Agustina Marianacci
Published: 2022-08-12
Community interpreting norms and research have been heavily influenced by a Western-centric community of practitioners and an individualist, positivist philosophy. This has resulted not only in an entrenched emphasis on…
Ethnicity and Diversity Evaluation People and Society
Advocacy
“¿Y ahora quién podrá defendernos?”: Exploring the Application of Ally Theory in Community Interpreting in Aotearoa From a Latin American Service-User Perspective
By: Agustina Marianacci
Published: 2022-05-01
The purpose of this research was to explore allyship and social justice in spoken-language interpreting from a service-user perspective. The research was conducted with the Latin American community in Aotearoa,…